Aldous Harding Quotes

I try not to be overly literal. When I'm writing songs, I write down a lot of words, and then I try to simplify it. I like to give people hints or words that make visual pictures for them.

I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.

In those days, it didn't take much imagination to come up with something that required great lyric development skills. You just thought of an experience that you might have gone through, and write it down.

To create something you must be something.

We have such a great depth of human history in all of the arts, whether it's opera or mathematics or painting or classical music or jazz. There's so many things to study, new books to read, and certainly always ways to transform old ideas and to come up with new ones.

Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.

Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.

I read mostly poetry.

Other people notice the same things but they don't think to put it to music.

I've written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it wasn't until I was a little bit older that I realized poetry could be put to music and become a song.

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

Music is chaos. When I write songs, I'm opening the door to madness.

I wrote my first song when I was 54 years old.

Making music and writing kind of come from the same creative place.

Music is closer to poetry than anything.

Music inspires contemplation, dreams, and the imagination.

I have to be inspired to write a song.

Music is all about creativity.

Think about what artists, novelists and poets have in common: the ability to engage in metaphorical thinking, linking seemingly unrelated ideas, such as, 'It is the east, and Juliet is the Sun.'

How does a person create a song? A lot of it is being open to encounter and to be in touch with the miraculous.

One's capacity for metaphor is one's capacity for a full life.

My motivation comes from a love of being creative. I'm in love with music and colour and laughter and dancing and all things that are beautiful.

The song we’re composing already exists in potential. Our work is to find it.

Songwriting requires some sort of ceremony to even get the process started, and it can be somewhat arbitrary.

I enjoy trying to inspire myself. I enjoy the artistic side of everything. Music, art, fashion, everything. I just like to be on the cutting edge of it. I'm into designing houses and interior design. I like change. I like creating things out of nothing.